On the eve of the great writer Percival Ward’s death, he gathers his greatest friends (as well as his would-be rival Neil, and Neil’s uninvited date) to argue one last time about his favorite subject: love. As the assembled writers, liars, poets, and musicians trade love stories, they find their stories and philosophies a bit less fictional than perhaps they’d like to admit. With the specter of romance looming, the assembled cynics and romantics trade tales and insults. As the evening drags on, alleged writer and confirmed con-artist Ray Waters panics over his inevitable turn as storyteller, and fixates on his unreturned lust for fellow storyteller Gillian Ryder.